{"id":1503,"date":"2011-02-28T11:07:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T15:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2011-02-28T11:07:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T15:07:33","slug":"text-messages-live-from-madison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/2011\/02\/text-messages-live-from-madison\/","title":{"rendered":"Text Messages Live from Madison"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"My fellow Killing the Buddha <\/em>editor\u00a0Quince Mountain is, as we blog-speak, in the occupied Capitol building of Madison, Wisconsin. Over the course of yesterday, he and I had an extended text-message exchange, which tells the dramatic story of a rumored crackdown, a victory, celebrations, and preparations for the next crisis. The full account of yesterday appears on Waging Nonviolence<\/a> and The Huffington Post<\/a>. Here’s a bit of it:<\/p>\n

I got a disconcerting message.<\/p>\n

Texting from cop car<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I asked, \u201cWhy? What happened?\u201d It wasn\u2019t until almost two hours later that he responded.<\/p>\n

No no. I was just hanging out talking w a cop in her car outside the Capitol.<\/p>\n

She said there have been zero arrests the whole two weeks. And we hung out in her car and a delivery guy tried to give us pizzas \u201cdonated from Washington\u201d but she couldn\u2019t accept them.<\/p>\n

The cops have been marching with the protesters twice daily. And I just read some of the cop briefing emails. Which strike me.<\/p>\n

Wait, I should be clear. There may have been arrests. Madison pd is NOT the Capitol pd or the state troopers.<\/p>\n

Plan for tomorrow according to email I saw is that everyone\u2019s requested to leave the Capitol for cleaning by 4pm but that no one will be forcibly removed. Same as is stated publicly.<\/p>\n

Yeah. Egyptians have donated food and pizzas and have sent messages.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow breakfast w my cop friend and a state assembly staffer and an in-home therapist in danger of losing his job, among others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’s really worth reading the whole thing. An amazing day.<\/p>\n

I heard from Q again this morning. “Awoke to six state trooper boots ascending stone steps,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

Like 30 more trooper boots kist as my eyes fell rest. Overhear “wr have it confirmed that theyre not supposed to be [here?]” Friend in the corner shakes his head after two walk past into a doorway. It’s the aftershave that kills you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\"My fellow Killing the Buddha <\/em>editor\u00a0Quince Mountain is, as we blog-speak, in the occupied Capitol building of Madison, Wisconsin. Over the course of yesterday, he and I had an extended text-message exchange, which tells the dramatic story of a rumored crackdown, a victory, celebrations, and preparations for the next crisis. The full account of yesterday appears on Waging Nonviolence<\/a> and The Huffington Post<\/a>. Here’s a bit of it:<\/p>\n

I got a disconcerting message.<\/p>\n

Texting from cop car<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I asked, \u201cWhy? What happened?\u201d It wasn\u2019t until almost two hours later that he responded.<\/p>\n

No no. I was just hanging out talking w a cop in her car outside the Capitol.<\/p>\n

She said there have been zero arrests the whole two weeks. And we hung out in her car and a delivery guy tried to give us pizzas \u201cdonated from Washington\u201d but she couldn\u2019t accept them.<\/p>\n

The cops have been marching with the protesters twice daily. And I just read some of the cop briefing emails. Which strike me.<\/p>\n

Wait, I should be clear. There may have been arrests. Madison pd is NOT the Capitol pd or the state troopers.<\/p>\n

Plan for tomorrow according to email I saw is that everyone\u2019s requested to leave the Capitol for cleaning by 4pm but that no one will be forcibly removed. Same as is stated publicly.<\/p>\n

Yeah. Egyptians have donated food and pizzas and have sent messages.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow breakfast w my cop friend and a state assembly staffer and an in-home therapist in danger of losing his job, among others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’s really worth reading the whole thing. An amazing day.<\/p>\n

I heard from Q again this morning. “Awoke to six state trooper boots ascending stone steps,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

Like 30 more trooper boots kist as my eyes fell rest. Overhear “wr have it confirmed that theyre not supposed to be [here?]” Friend in the corner shakes his head after two walk past into a doorway. It’s the aftershave that kills you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[54,78,23,56,65,82],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-conversation","tag-drama","tag-friendship","tag-human-rights","tag-nonviolence","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}